Is paint.net better than gimp? I don't recall ever using paint.net. I have Inkscape and Krita on my list but those are probably more vector art replacements. It's been a couple years since I looked at them.

"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

I don't remember the last time I tried using it. I know I didn't like it back then and I have no idea if there has been any effort to update. What I don't know is how I'd think about the UI since learning Photoshop but since I keep my Creative Cloud subscription going I haven't had any reason to go back to it.

"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

The gimpshop changes mostly got merged to upstream. I believe they are default on windows, and can be enabled by turning on single-window mode on Linux. As far as most people are concerned this is simply the default state of things.

Gimp is not good for drawing shapes or paths. I prefer PDN for that, but everything else is fine in gimp. Both gimp and photoshop have terrible user interfaces, but differently terrible, so because photoshop is more popular people tend to think itís better. If you want to do art as a professional you will probably be forced to learn Adobe stuff. If you just want to photoshop memes or whatever, thegimp is great.

Edit: I havenít tried my Wacom tablet in the gimp on Windows. On Linux it is bad. I donít know whether itís because of Linux or because of the gimp.

I don't particularly like the user interface in any Adobe product I've used. On top of that, some of the software is similar enough but clearly each retain many of their own interface quirks to make things various levels of confusing as you switch between applications.

"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

The gimpshop changes mostly got merged to upstream. I believe they are default on windows, and can be enabled by turning on single-window mode on Linux. As far as most people are concerned this is simply the default state of things.

Gimp is not good for drawing shapes or paths. I prefer PDN for that, but everything else is fine in gimp. Both gimp and photoshop have terrible user interfaces, but differently terrible, so because photoshop is more popular people tend to think itís better. If you want to do art as a professional you will probably be forced to learn Adobe stuff. If you just want to photoshop memes or whatever, thegimp is great.

Edit: I havenít tried my Wacom tablet in the gimp on Windows. On Linux it is bad. I donít know whether itís because of Linux or because of the gimp.

It's probably gimp that's gimped rather than linux, as I understand it drawing tablets work fantastically well with Krita.

This thread reminds me: I wonder if getting Photoshop + Premiere Elements is sufficient in lieu of getting the whole Creative Cloud thing. I mean, at some point I'm probably gonna have to reformat and/or get rid of my 2014 computer and thus the Creative Suite 5.1 on it.

The most annoying thing in all this is that I wasn't able to find the Paint Shop Pro 7 installation disc from my parents' belongings, so if/when I'm gonna have to try copypasting the entire PSP7 directory from my current backup computer to a new computer and that won't work - boh!

I used to use a version of Paint Shop Pro, 4 I think, on an old Pentium 133. That computer still works and last time I fired it up I found it was still on there. I thought it was lost in a reformat. It's a demo or shareware version that literally just has one nag screen when you launch it but is completely fully functional. I imagine that it should actually notify me that I'm around 8000 days past my trial period if it were the original install and the clocks were accurate. There were somethings I remember liking in that program far more than more powerful and featured software.

I still keep a Creative Cloud subscription but I don't know how long that will be the case if I'm not using the software to make money or otherwise getting great enjoyment out of it. Fortunately the student cost is greatly reduced.

"I would rather claim to be an uneducated man than be mal-educated and claim to be otherwise." - Wookie 03:16

I've tried to use Gimp a few times. I'm sure it's a decent program, but my needs weren't important enough for me to be willing to put forth the (perceived) effort into learning it.

For (admittedly very casual) vector graphics work, I've been using Inkscape. I've found it to be fairly intuitive (with the occasional google search for tutorials along the way).

It's not free but for photo editing, I bit the bullet and paid $99 for a life time license for Lightroom. Definitely worth the cost, IMO. The only thing it doesn't do (to my knowledge) that I wish it could do is clone from one image to another (you can clone within an image easily enough but you're limited to a round brush).